Lol, thanks. I think it’s still worth it if you want more ownership over your searches, but just expect some rough edges

Recently I’ll often get results that aren’t at all related to what I searched for. I also get a lot of timeouts from the upstream search engines, and sometimes I get results that are in Chinese for some reason

Self hosting and the maintenance is painless, but the results have been pretty terrible lately

Sell to pay my electricity bill

SFF Optiplec are great. I went with a decently spec’d Intel NUC running Proxmox that handles all my home services nicely without using too much power.

Fully custom? Sick! Where do I get one? 😅

Rsync or SCP?

That would be my exit sign

Reminds me of project Silica. Media historically was more durable (stone/ ink and cloth paper, etc) but had a low data density. As density increased, so did fragility

So sad, I remember seeing his YT vid announcing his health updates and mentioning he was getting things in order to make his network more manageable for his family :(

He seemed like a great dude.

Is keeping everything inside of a local “walled garden”, then exposing the minimum amount of services needed to a WireGuard VPN not sufficient?

There would be be no attack surface from WAN other than the port opened to WireGuard